Sex Aware

Those who condemn porn do not seem to realise that, for most of us, it is an outlet and nothing more. Many of us need to release our sexual urges, and porn aids masturbation. Most men do not secretly wish that their girlfriends looked, or acted, like the mute, glazed-eyed and fake-breasted girls in porn videos. Some men might find it hot to watch a MILF get triple-teamed by guys with penises the size of baseball bats, but the majority of us do not want anything like that in our own bedrooms. Watching porn allows men and women to easily live out their sexual fantasies, without the difficulties of organising it in real life.

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The elusive female G-spot may not actually exist at all, according to scientists. The G-spot is said to be a small area of the female body where nerve endings are concentrated, with the capability to provide intense pleasure. '

After reviewing 100 studies conducted over the past 60 years, experts have concluded that there is no evidence for the fabled centre of female sexual pleasure after all.

Research leader Dr Amichai Kilchevsky, a urologist from the Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, blamed pornography, magazines and sex therapists for ruthlessly promoting the idea. While he admitted the concept merited further attention and that modern investigative techniques might help, he said he hoped his conclusion would take the pressure off couples who had not located it.

Objective measures have failed to provide strong and consistent evidence for the existence of an anatomical site that could be related to the famed G-spot, he wrote in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

His findings support those of researchers from King's College London, who questioned 1,800 women in one of the largest studies on the subject and concluded that there was no evidence for the existence of the G-spot.

Here at BBC Three, we're kicking off the New Year with the Sex Season. Over the next couple of weeks we aim to answer all these questions and more by delving deeper into the sex lives of the British public.

There'll be a range of topics and viewpoints on the complexities of sex and sexuality from the scientist and the historian to the virgin, the lap dancer and the comedian.

Here are our highlights from the first week...

How Sex Works

This three-part series follows the three ages of sex - the first time, playing the field and sex in a long-term relationship. Intertwining real life stories from couples and singletons with some impressive CGI, the show reveals what happens before, during and after sex.

How Sex Works begins on Monday 9th January at 9pm.

Websex: What's The Harm

Ex-Hollyoaks actress Nathalie Emmanuel investigates how the internet is changing the sex lives of the British public. She meets young people who rely on social networking sites, the latest mobile technology and webcams.

Websex: What's The Harm is on Tuesday 10th January at 9pm

Confessions Of A Sex Addict

Comedian Jeff Leach is the archetypal ladies' man and he's got stats to back it up too. At just 27 he has slept with nearly 300 women and has even kept a list of every single one of them. But now he's looking to settle down. Will Jeff finally uncover the route to emotional fulfilment and, for once, go home alone?

Confessions Of A Sex Addict is on Wednesday 11th January at 9pm

Cherry Healey: like a Virgin

Losing your virginity is one of those life-defining moments that can be intimate, exciting and nerve-wracking all rolled into one. But good or bad, Cherry wants to find out if that one simple little act really does have a lasting impact.

Cherry Healey: like a Virgin is on Thursday 12th January at 9pm

Given the typical danger-oriented media coverage of pornography, it's easy for parents to feel terribly anxious about this issue. To listen to Newsweek or morality groups, you'd think that every American boy is in danger of becoming a porn addict---an obsessive, aggressive loser who hates women, and eventually destroys himself.

So let's all take a deep breath and calm down.

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